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The article describes a talk by Ian McHarg that the club Environmental Quality sponsored. McHarg wrote the book "Design with Nature" that criticizes urban development and identifies six threats to the environment.

A Los Angeles Times feature article about the approaching Earth Day 1990, with biographical sketches reflecting on the 1970-1990 period.

In February of 1979, the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry held a subcommittee meeting in Middlebury, Vermont to receive proposals on Rare II Wilderness sites across the United States. After three days of proposals and hearings, the…

The "Toxic Wastes and Race" report that the United Church of Christ published in 1987 included a map illustrating the metropolitan areas where the greatest number of African- American residents lived near toxic waste sites. For instance, 99.8 percent…

In 1987, the United Church of Christ (UCC), headed by executive director Benjamin Chavis Jr., published a seminal report about the relationship of race and socioeconomic class to contaminated waste sites across the U.S. The UCC's assessment revealed…

A newspaper article in the Washington Post about student environmental concerns and activism.

The image accompanies the New York Times' review of The Last Whole Earth Catalog

Two articles and advice about green consumption

Ronald Reagan swept the 1980 presidential election, garnering 489 out of a total of 538 electoral college votes. His main opponent, the incumbent Jimmy Carter, was accused of hurting American economic interests while carrying a weak foreign policy

A Los Angeles Times article explaining the benefits of giving trees and other environmental entities full legal standing in the American judicial system.